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Local cops news with Capt. Mike Williams: 12.28.05 report

New Jersey:
Seconds before two Jersey City police officers plunged off a NJ bridge, several other officers dashed after their truck, screaming for them to stop as they drove straight toward a gap in the bridge.

Illinois:
Christmas morning shootings rattle Southern Ill. communities, injure nine, including four officers.

California:
LAPD Probes Shooting Of Woman Holding Toy Gun.

Illinois:
SWAT Team Storms Apartment Where Man Holed Up.

Canada:
An unarmed man who was zapped by police with a Taser died after his heart stopped on the way to hospital.

A city cop who fired a stun gun at an agitated man who later died is “distraught” but has the support of fellow officers, says the head of the cop union.

Los Angeles:
A man who took his wife and 3-year-old daughter hostage was arrested Monday after a 16-hour police standoff that began when he allegedly stabbed his sister-in-law.

California:
Officer shoots, kills man who threatened to attack him with a screwdriver.

Georgia:
Officer battles back from gunshot wounds to return to duty.

Iowa:
Officer Shoots House By Accident.

Texas:
Some call it a mercy killing, but one witness calls it animal cruelty.
An San Antonio police officer shot a baby deer Monday. (Note from Capt. Williams: He will catch more crap over this than if it had been a human being)

Seattle:
Police Forces, Their Ranks Thin, Offer Bonuses, Bounties and More.

Capitol Hill wife who just won’t sit still.
Seen but not heard? Not Beverly Young. For wounded soldiers, she’ll make such a fuss laws are changed.

Mike Williams is the Assistant Chief of the Chattanooga TN police department and a 33 year law enforcement veteran. He was a SWAT officer for more than 25 years and teaches Tactical Team Commanders Courses for Team One Network www.teamonenetwork.com Asst. Chief Williams is a member of the IALEFI Board of Directors (www.ialefi.com ) and is chairman of the editorial committee. He also produces the daily Police Related News electronic newsletter which goes out to over 2,000 police officers in the US, Canada, Australia and South Africa on a daily basis and the weekly IALEFI newsletter.